The advent of 5G Core Networks (5GCN) promises to provide a vibrant and service-rich technology ecosystem converging distributed computing (Cloud, Edge, IoT), Software Defined Networking (SDN) and elastic application services capable of serving a wide range of state-of-the-art industry use cases in autonomous vehicles, industrial IoT and healthcare applications.
Naturally, therefore, as the aperture of APTs continues to expand, 5GCN has been identified as an appealing target to threat actors such as APTs and to date numerous 5G network security assessments have been conducted by academics, security groups, and industry suppliers [1]}, [2]}, [3]} in an attempt to identify suitable controls for protecting 5GCN architectures.
However, the introduction of diverse new technologies and an elastic re-configurable architecture at the core of 5GCN's value proposition introduces new cyber challenges.
